History

Ernst Marcus, a Berlin lawyer, woke up in his apartment in the German capital's Grunewald district eighty-three years ago. What he saw was unbelievable.

Exactly eighty years ago, German soldiers murdered 33,771 Jews from Kiev within one and a half days. What took place at Babi Yar was one of the most horrific…

August 12th, 1961, was a warm summer day in Berlin. Just like today, tourists looked at Brandenburg Gate from all angles. They were interested in this vibrant…

Victor Baruch, one of the 50,000 Bulgarian Jews who were saved from the Nazis, and the only Bulgarian to cover the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, celebrates his 100th birthday today. Imanuel Marcus met him in Sofia, when he was 97.

Every year, Berlin celebrates the Airlift, which ended 72 year ago. The operation organized by the Western Allies saved the lives of the residents in Berlin's…

Sophie Scholl was born into a liberal and Christian family in southern Germany on May 9th, 1921. By the time she was a student in Munich, her conscience forced…

Seventy-six years after fascist Nazi Germany was defeated by the Allies, politicians in its successor state, the Federal Republic of Germany, thanked the liberators. It took today's Germany a while to see May 8th as the day of liberation.

The Berlin Wall was a symbol for the entire Iron Curtain between the area of the Soviet Bloc and the West during the Cold War. Back then, there were GDR…

In Weimar and the nearby Buchenwald memorial site, the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the former concentration camp was observed today. Because of…

The Eichmann case is directly connected to the darkest chapter in the history of Germany and of mankind. Sixty years ago, the young state of Israel brought the 'architect of the Holocaust' to justice, in spite of Bonn's efforts to prevent countries from doing so.